The team behind RRU say ‘as trust in politicians, bankers and the media has reached new lows, truth and fiction have become interchangeable, with the agenda defined by likes and shares not integrity and interrogation’

RRU spin stories on their heads and share original artistic reactions to the news via digital and broadcast media.

The Rapid Response Unit at St John's Market

The Rapid Response Unit will offer a dramatically different array of lenses through which you can view local, national and global events as they happen. It will interpret the news, create the news and challenge the news.

Regional, national and international artists from all art forms paired with some of the city’s most innovative and acclaimed arts and cultural organisations will be commissioned to produce new work inspired by global and local stories and headlines.

These “reporters and correspondents” will work directly opposite a huge new DWP job & work assessment centre, surrounded by small market traders (representing 39 countries) and daily shoppers.

Phil Disley

Their news sources will be chosen very carefully.

Cartoonist and illustrator Phil Disley and digital artist Jane Farley are the first resident artists.